Remote DCOM/WMI Lateral Movement
Detects remote RPC calls that performs remote DCOM operations. These could be abused for lateral movement via DCOM or WMI.
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1title: Remote DCOM/WMI Lateral Movement
2id: 68050b10-e477-4377-a99b-3721b422d6ef
3status: test
4description: Detects remote RPC calls that performs remote DCOM operations. These could be abused for lateral movement via DCOM or WMI.
5references:
6 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-srvs/accf23b0-0f57-441c-9185-43041f1b0ee9
7 - https://github.com/zeronetworks/rpcfirewall
8 - https://zeronetworks.com/blog/stopping-lateral-movement-via-the-rpc-firewall/
9author: Sagie Dulce, Dekel Paz
10date: 2022-01-01
11modified: 2022-01-01
12tags:
13 - attack.lateral-movement
14 - attack.t1021.003
15 - attack.t1047
16logsource:
17 product: rpc_firewall
18 category: application
19 definition: 'Requirements: install and apply the RPC Firewall to all processes with "audit:true action:block uuid:367abb81-9844-35f1-ad32-98f038001003'
20detection:
21 selection:
22 EventLog: RPCFW
23 EventID: 3
24 InterfaceUuid:
25 - 4d9f4ab8-7d1c-11cf-861e-0020af6e7c57
26 - 99fcfec4-5260-101b-bbcb-00aa0021347a
27 - 000001a0-0000-0000-c000-000000000046
28 - 00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046
29 - 00000143-0000-0000-c000-000000000046
30 - 00000000-0000-0000-c000-000000000046
31 condition: selection
32falsepositives:
33 - Some administrative tasks on remote host
34level: high
References
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